I agree with David Mears: start with the best. I haven’t been hybridizing for a few years now, partly because I seldom find a good yellow. Today I went to a rose show and saw the perfect creamy yellow with darker yellow highlights. The flower was good-sized with large petals and had the perfect HT exhibitor’s shape. The stems were long like a grandiflora without many thorns and there was also a light fragrance. The exhibitor said that . occasionally there was a confused center, but most of the flowers were like these two, which were gorgeous. I asked the name and he said it was called “Naranja” which means “orange” in Spanish. I hurried home to look it up and no information is available, although I remember reading about it several years ago. This would be the perfect starter (although Pacific Jade’s cross of Selfridges X Freedom is also stunning), but I cannot find a single bit of information, much less a place to buy several. Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Linda Sun Kilfeather
Exhibitors (myself included) sometimes pick up a bouquet of florist roses and root them “just to see” if they can find the next great rose. That might be it.
Or, there is a new yellow hybrid tea that matches your description that is around the exhibitor circuit these days called Mohana – that might be it. That one is available from Steve Singer at Wisconsin Roses, who buds it to multiflora rootstock.
Hi Linda. My name is Michael. I never released that rose, since it is my pet project to fine tune. I maybe should have, because its a good rose, and it roots so easily, but I never felt like I was finished.
That’s the curse, Michael. “We” never feel a rose is “finished”, always seeing something worth “improving” or modifying. The talent is either developing the ability to see it as worthy of releasing, or trusting someone else’s eyes to see that for us. It can range from being too quick to release things, as has often seemed the case with earlier English roses all the way to never wanting to release anything because nothing is ever “perfect”. Sad fact is, nothing ever will be.
When some of the folks here talk about not releasing one of their jewels I have to laugh…more out of frustration. I’ve gone through HMF and have seen some of the wonderful roses that have been created by the RHA members. In my eye, they look as good or better than much of what is available commercially. And the diversity in the parentage is amazing. I’m trying to fill up my new property with different lines, but the commercially available plants that I find all seem to have Peace, Pinocchio or Crimson Glory in the line. I don’t know whether I should compare them to European royalty or Alabama backwoods family trees.
I don’t know whether I should compare them to European royalty or Alabama backwoods family trees.
I’m sure there is a difference, just find it hard to determine what and how.
Hey, wait a minute! Study Victoria’s offspring and you’ll see that no where else on earth do you have such inbreeding, except, perhaps, in pedigree dogs or Joe Winchell and early Harm Saville roses. Victoria and her offspring raised MANY, stupid, “droopy” children! My maternal side is proudly from Alabama and believe me, THEY know not to marry that close, not even for the money.
An interesting story. Dr. Bayse was culling a group of seedlings while a friend was visiting. He tossed a seedlng into the reject container and the friend said, something to the effect of “wait a minute, that looks like a rose worth saving.” Dr Bayse reconsidered and that rose turned out to be Belinda’s Dream which is a very beautiful, healthy, popular garden rose in the South.
Thinking about it, no released rose is “perfect.” It can always be “tweaked,” but what if it takes another decade to do that. Authors have their editors and maybe hybridists need a second pair of eyes. Often doctors want a second opinion or a consult.
Michael take note! 
Jim P
Ralph used to sell his seedlings not selected for further observation for $2 each, until someone regularly took advantage, when he stopped the practice. Paul Barden bought a rose of breeding he found intriguing and determined it hadn’t sufficient time to show its worth, when he returned pieces of it to Ralph. This is the rose they selected and named for me. Kim Rupert was one of the throw away seedlings. Often, we don’t give them the opportunity to demonstrate what’s possible from them. Many take maturation to develop their true character and outgrow any disease issues.
The same is true for Star Magic. Ralph selected it for introduction, then discontinued it due to lack of “rebloom”.I grew it large enough to put it on a steep potion of the upper slope in the old Newhall garden, where it grew to ginormous size. For easily seven years, there was not one month when it didn’t NOT have flowers on it. In four inch pots, it would flower in spring, but not repeat. Once it was five-plus feet tall and easily six by six feet wide and deep, it never stopped flowering in the mid desert. It was also impervious to any disease issues, never had ANY insect issues (not even aphids) and the rabbits didn’t seem to recognize it as edible as they never touched it. Very often, these things need to mature before we can actually make informed decisions about them. Star Magic wasn’t suitable for a potted mini, but as a bullet proof landscape rose for that zone, it was unmatched.
Very pretty, Michael, it looks like First Impression.
tis a gorgeous pure and seemingly highly saturated yellow HT bloom. Is it fragrant as well?
Its kind of a moderate sweet scent.
That is one nice sculptured yellow!
Michael can you give me/us some history to your brilliant yellow rose please if it has not been given before. If it has I can not find it, many thanks.
It is the rose of the OP’s topic, which is why I posted it.